The lights in Hogwarts were sparsely lit. Tonight was not much different from yesterday and the day before, but it was still a sleepless night for many people.

The library was very quiet, and Hermione was able to immerse herself in her current work.

In front of her was a pile of thick books, with almost ten books open at the same time, but she didn't read any of them. Instead, she bit her lip and thought. Obviously, after the Statute of Secrecy came into effect at the end of the seventeenth century, no wizard dared to move openly. If she planned to find a place where wizards and Muggles intersected, she should have done it before that.

Hermione tried hard to recall what she had read, occasionally pulling a book over, turning to a page and reading carefully for a while. Gradually, a picture of the magic world for a thousand years was outlined in her mind.

Although Professor Bathilda Bagshot, the author of the History of Magic, only wrote to the end of the nineteenth century, Hermione still collected useful information.

During the First World War in the early twentieth century, Archer Evermond, the then Minister of Magic, chose neutrality and passed legislation to prohibit wizards and witches from participating in the war to avoid large-scale violations of the International Statute of Secrecy.

At that time, Harry's great-grandfather Henry Potter strongly condemned Evermund's decision. As a pure-blood and Wizengamot member, his actions caused a sensation and were widely discussed.

Some of the fragments that have been handed down believe that the Potter family's exclusion from the 28 Sacred Families is likely related to this matter. The wizards during the war also made their own choices - they did not violate the Statute of Secrecy and the laws of the Ministry of Magic and were directly involved in the war, but the laws of the Ministry of Magic also failed to prevent thousands of wizards who lived next to Muggles from carefully and to the best of their ability to help Muggles.

Hermione recalled while flipping through the book -

in the 19th century, the Ministry of Magic agreed to let goblins be responsible for the operation of Gringotts; a serious Floo network accident occurred in the 1950s, and the "Reasonable Restraint of Underage Wizards Act" was passed in the 1960s. Since then, Hogwarts students have been prohibited from casting spells outside the school; at about the same time, the administrator of Hogwarts tried to catch and control Peeves, but failed, and instead attracted Peeves' fierce resistance;

because of the special birth principle of Peeves, the headmaster at the time compromised.

Idris Okebai, the founder of the Squib Support Association, was also born around this time. Some people suspect that her experience of being mistaken for a Squib when she was young may have prompted her to empathize with real Squibs. In 1892, the Bigfoot rebellion broke out in the United States, and the headquarters of the Magical Congress of the United States of America moved to the current Woolworth Building. In the last year of this century, Albus Dumbledore graduated with honors, but later gave up his graduation trip because of his mother's accidental death, and met Grindelwald for the first time in Godric's Hollow...

In addition, this century also produced some boring Quidditch news. Oh, by the way, Hermione remembered something closely related to her: the witch Eloise Mintubbe used a time converter to go back five centuries in an experiment and was trapped in 1402 for five days. Heloise died because of this, but she was much luckier...

In the 18th century, a bill prohibiting private dragon breeding was passed, and the concept of the Unforgivable Curse was first proposed;

at that time, the Statute of Secrecy had been implemented for nearly half a century. This law was amended and became more and more perfect, but it also made some wizards feel depressed, which attracted some opposition. Gideon Flatworthy established an anti-Muggle extremist organization, but the way they expressed their hatred was to refuse to do physical labor like Muggles (Hermione thought that it was somewhat similar to the professor's theory of daily use of magic), and to expand a series of practical methods of summoning spells. But Flatworthy did not use the spell in the right place. When he tried to use the summoning spell to steal the property of Gringotts, his identity was exposed. After failing, he had to flee in embarrassment to avoid capture; the members were disappointed with him and left him alone in the cave, and the organization was disbanded.

It is worth mentioning that Flatworthy's ending was not very good. He was trapped in the cave, injured and lacking food, so he dared to call the only food source within his sight - the barn at the foot of the mountain, but was killed by cows and haystacks.

Quidditch news never missed. The two groups fought inexplicably. The only valuable thing was that the repairing charm appeared in front of the world for the first time.

Rappaport's Law was officially promulgated...

The seventeenth century began with the goblin rebellion. Eight years later, Isolt Sayer, the most important founder of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, went to the United States; Mungo Bonham also founded St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Maladies at this time;

'All magical creatures except wizards are prohibited from holding wands' was confirmed in the form of law, and the werewolf code of conduct was also proposed, but obviously, no werewolf would take the initiative to stand up and admit their identity.

1692 was a very important year. The International Statute of Secrecy was officially implemented. Wizards completely turned to hiding, and "small communities within communities" gradually formed in the next hundred years; the Magical Congress of the United States was established.

Nothing major happened from the 15th to the 16th century. Many wizards had spontaneously stayed away from the crowd. They began to pursue novel entertainment activities. The first Quidditch World Cup came into being (Quidditch again), and then ushered in an unprecedented collection of fouls, with more than 700 foul methods used. There is a book specifically recorded, and Hermione couldn't believe that she had read it out of boredom...

The 14th century was the source of the birth of the Statute of Secrecy. As the Black Death spread in Europe, everything related to or associated with witchcraft was excluded. Some wizards who were engaged in public or semi-public activities were expelled. After that, it became more and more serious. Finally, wizard burning incidents occurred in some places. Many wizards were forced to hide their identities and go underground or live in seclusion.

In the 10th century, Hogwarts was established, and various magic schools were established one after another.

...

As the night deepened, Hermione raised her head and heard a small voice behind her. She suddenly turned her head and saw the librarian Madam Pince standing behind her. She was startled.

"Yes, sorry, Madam Pince, are you closing the door?" Hermione jumped up and said. She was impressed by this stern, bad-tempered, vulture-like woman.

Madam Pince shook her head, holding a cup of hot cocoa in the hand that usually held the feather duster. She put the cup on the table.

Hermione stared at the hot cocoa in a daze, and was so surprised that she didn't even say "thank you". When she realized it, Madam Pince had left. Hermione sat down and continued to work. She tried to combine the history of non-wizards to find a pattern, but in the end she found nothing and was a little discouraged.

The hot cocoa brought her energy. She walked around the huge bookshelves, looking for inspiration. Her eyes slid from the titles of the books, and unknowingly came to an area that she rarely visited. The tall bookshelves were filled with various notes that exuded a rotten smell, all left by Hogwarts students.

Hermione picked up a book at random. It contained the experiences of a Hufflepuff student during his travels. Because some of the notes were old, the wording and sentence structure in the notes were quite difficult to read. She put down the travel notes and picked up another one, this time a novel.

She read with great interest for a while, and was surprised by the passing of time. She put the book down and sighed, thinking that now was not the time to read these things.

But then, her eyes gradually brightened up, as if she had just found a suitable angle.

－－－－－－－Digression－－－－－－－

I was going to write about the plot of a TV interview today. I wanted to write about some of the concepts of wizards from different perspectives, but the progress was slow. I put together a chapter temporarily, which can be regarded as a review of the history of wizards as a whole. The author picked out a few interesting but irrelevant contents of the plot, which may represent some of the ideas of wizards.